SC plans to ask AIIMS to constitute panel over declaring patient braindead

The Supreme Court on Tuesday indicated that it would ask the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences to constitute a committee to examine the suggestions given by a petitioner relating to the procedure of declaring a patient brain dead.

A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta was hearing a plea challenging a June 2017 order of the Kerala High Court. 

The petitioner had moved the High Court, highlighting the alleged malpractice in declaring a patient to be brain dead.

During the hearing on Tuesday, the petitioner, who appeared in person, referred to the process of certifying a patient to be brain dead.

“There must be verifiable evidence of a patient being brain dead,” the petitioner told the apex court.

Contending that brain death is a condition when there is no supply of blood to the brain.